"In Search of the Lost Treasure".
This is an example of part of the literature workshop that I give with the grant from FECAS. The children read, listen to music, draw and write. The workshop is an idea that has been adapted and improved during the years and it's called "In Search of the Lost Treasure".
Instructor Lic, Juan Diego González.
LECTURES GIVEN
Elementary Level
The Generous Tree of Shel Silverstein
(complete book)
Readings of Rincón Teseo and the Minotauro (Plutarco) (complete book)
Readings Ahí viene el Lobo (Perrault) brief story
David and Goliath(Book 1 of Samuel) Cap. 1, ver.1-58
Loose Stories and poems (Readings of Rincón)
LISTENING TO THE FOLLOWING MUSIC
Popular Russian Music, Popular Spanish Music, Bigest hits of Cri Cri, La Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio, La Chilindrina, Carlos Santana, Del Medieovo al Danzón, Vivaldi (Four Seasons) Mozart, Bach, Tchaycovski, Debussy (La Mer y El Atardecer del Fauno) y Chopin (Concert no. 1 for piano and orchestra and La Polonesa “Heróica”).
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Sample children's stories and poems, Ages 8 and 9 years old from lecture.
RABBIT
This was a rabbit that they wanted to kill, the rabbit would stop and they would shoot at him but they wouldn't hit him...
He would run and again he would stop and they would shoot...
The more the car sped up from where they were shooting, they couldn't hit him.
The more the rabbit ran the more he would tire, but he continued running...
At the end he lost the will to live and they killed him.
Raúl Moreno Martínez
PARTO VS. THE DRAGON
Once upon a time there was a hero named PARTO. He lived in the forest and he was a hunting expert. One day he went out to hunt a deer for dinner and soon Parto got lost in an area of the forest that he didn't know. At sunrise he looked towards a hill and discovered a very large castle and at the highest point a dragon, that came down to attack.
Parto takes out quickly his sword and the dragon quickly hits him with his tail and Parto hits a tree and hits his neck. He recuperates and stabs the dragon on a leg with his sword. With this the dragon was unable to walk and Parto takes out the sword and sticks it in his mouth and the dragon falls dead.
Parto finds his way home and arrives with the dragon and the food lasts him ten days.
Lucio Alfredo Lucero Dávila
THE WATER STAR
Once upon a time there was a star that every night would shine, but it was a water star. They said in town that when it would burst, all the children would loose their teeth.
Well, that day arrived and the star burst and the water fell over the main street. It was a raven that burst the star and all the children lost their teeth. The following day nobody could taste the food.
Karla Fernanda Carrera Montoya
FLOWER
Flower
flower of light,
light of flower
everything awakens with light of flowers
that give light like everydays dawn.
Everything has to do with flower or light
this is what's important:
to bloom at dawn.
Carmen Yuridia Lucero Quintana.
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